Technical Recruiter

About the role

This is our first dedicated recruiting hire, and it is one of the most important bets we will make this year. You will own how Atomic finds, courts, and closes exceptional people, and you will build the talent function from the ground up: the pipelines, the playbooks, the tooling, and eventually the team around you.

What You'll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across the company, from the first touch to the signed offer, for roles spanning engineering, manufacturing, operations, and leadership.
• Build Atomic's sourcing engine from scratch: outbound strategy, talent maps, referral loops, and a modern automation and AI tooling stack that lets one person do the work of a team.
• Meet elite engineers and operators online and in person, and be a magnetic ambassador for the mission and for American reindustrialization.
• Travel to meet candidates where they are, host them at our Detroit factory, and turn a plant tour into the moment they decide to bet their career on Atomic.
• Design a candidate experience so sharp and so fast that people tell their friends about it whether or not they get the job.
• Partner directly with the founder and hiring managers to define what "great" looks like for each role and hold a high, uncompromising bar.
• Instrument the funnel. Track conversion at every stage, run experiments, and use data to make our hiring faster and better every single week.
• Lay the foundation of the talent function—its process, tooling, and brand—and hire and lead the recruiters who come after you.

Who You Are

• Have a track record of full-cycle recruiting and sourcing hard-to-find talent, ideally in a high-growth startup, hardtech, defense, or manufacturing environment.
• Be genuinely, natively online. Understand modern channels and internet culture and use them fluently to find and win people others can't reach.
• Be fluent with tooling and automation—ATS, sourcing tools, scripts, and AI—and you would rather build a repeatable system than grind the same task twice.
• Have extremely high agency. Be an owner and an operator who is comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and does not wait to be told what to do.
• Have exceptional taste in people and the judgment to hold a high bar under pressure to hire.
• Be a persuasive, high-integrity communicator who can make a skeptical, world-class candidate believe in the mission.
• Be hungry to build a function and a team, not just fill a seat, and you want the ownership and the upside that come with being first.
• Love being on the ground and in the room where hiring actually gets won, and be excited about reindustrializing America and making it possible to build hard things quickly again.

Location & Travel

Remote is welcome. We care about output and reach, not your zip code, and we will happily work with strong candidates wherever they are based. Travel is a real and recurring part of this role. You should expect to travel regularly to meet candidates in person, attend the events where top talent gathers, and bring finalists to our Detroit headquarters to experience the factory and the team firsthand.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and a meaningful equity stake in a company building the future of American manufacturing.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off with a 20-day minimum.
• The chance to build a talent function from zero, work shoulder to shoulder with the founder, and own one of the highest-leverage roles in the company.

Atomic Industries is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.